Why is it when I save a gif (with transparent background) with a effect on a image (ie. showing) The image has distortion around it? Ive tried saving for web and saving normally as gif and they all come out distorted?

I always use PNG-24. However distortion of images is always present since they're (unlike vectors) prerendered. Anyhow, in cases like this I find using PNG-24 (plus image smoothing if there is an effect on that image) in SwishMax to be the best solution.

Thanks Bojko, will give that a try. The reason I am using this style of gif is because I am making a custom cursor for my swish scene and I need the image to be transparent over a black and also parts of a white background. So the white shadowing would show up on the black and the black part of the icon of course would normally show up.

Thanks Bojko, will give that a try. The reason I am using this style of gif is because I am making a custom cursor for my swish scene and I need the image to be transparent over a black and also parts of a white background. So the white shadowing would show up on the black and the black part of the icon of course would normally show up.

However distortion of images is always present since they're (unlike vectors) prerendered. Anyhow, in cases like this I find using PNG-24 (plus image smoothing if there is an effect on that image) in SwishMax to be the best solution.